Let's hope the Kurds really give it to these Islamic extremist crazy bullies.
ISIL on offensive against Kurds to capture town near Turkey
Kurdish fighters take positions near Turkish border in Syria's Kobani (Photo: DHA)
July 10, 2014, Thursday/ 20:48:00/ AP / BEIRUT
Islamist radical militants using weapons they recently seized in neighboring Iraq intensified an offensive against Kurdish areas in northern Syria as they fight to expand the territory under their control, activists said Thursday.
The clashes came as a Syrian watchdog group said the death toll in Syria's three-year conflict has climbed to 171,000, reflecting the relentless bloodletting in a civil war that appears no closer to being resolved. Nearly half of the dead were civilians, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Members of the Islamic State group and Kurdish fighters have been fighting each other for a year, but the Kurds were usually the instigators until earlier this month when the balance of power appears to have tipped in favor of the Sunni extremists because of the large amounts of weapons they brought from Iraq into Syria.
Islamic State fighters captured several Kurdish villages and killed dozens of fighters in the area this week, according to activists.
Read more at:
http://www.todayszaman.com/son-dakika_isil-on-offensive-against-kurds-to-capture
ISIL on offensive against Kurds to capture town near Turkey
Kurdish fighters take positions near Turkish border in Syria's Kobani (Photo: DHA)
July 10, 2014, Thursday/ 20:48:00/ AP / BEIRUT
Islamist radical militants using weapons they recently seized in neighboring Iraq intensified an offensive against Kurdish areas in northern Syria as they fight to expand the territory under their control, activists said Thursday.
The clashes came as a Syrian watchdog group said the death toll in Syria's three-year conflict has climbed to 171,000, reflecting the relentless bloodletting in a civil war that appears no closer to being resolved. Nearly half of the dead were civilians, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Members of the Islamic State group and Kurdish fighters have been fighting each other for a year, but the Kurds were usually the instigators until earlier this month when the balance of power appears to have tipped in favor of the Sunni extremists because of the large amounts of weapons they brought from Iraq into Syria.
Islamic State fighters captured several Kurdish villages and killed dozens of fighters in the area this week, according to activists.
Read more at:
http://www.todayszaman.com/son-dakika_isil-on-offensive-against-kurds-to-capture
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